I wanted to tell you all that Dani will be stopping gymnastics at the end of this month (Saturday is her last practice). We have put a tremendous amount of thought and consideration into this and kind of knew the end was nearing soon. We have just decided that with all her dance classes, school workload (7th grade) and weekend dance rehearsals, fitting team gymnastics in was just too much. Weekends would be crazy busy, and I wasn't really looking forward to spreading myself that thin trying to juggle everything with transportation, not to mention Dani being worn out.
Dani is a bit sad but she realizes that this decision had to be made and she is very excited about the dance opportunities headed her way. Her gym coach that she has known since she started with pre-team at age 9 is also leaving the gym due to a family move so that did play into our decision a little as well. My ds is getting older (almost 10) and is interested in basketball so I need to make time for his activities also.
I will definitely still be around (I am still a huge gymnastics fan even though my dd isn't participating anymore). I love hearing about all the gymmies' progress and hearing about other day to day stuff we all go through.
Here is a video I put together a few days ago of Dani's time in the sport:
[video=youtube;oP657rFtXDU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP657rFtXDU[/video]
Dani is a bit sad but she realizes that this decision had to be made and she is very excited about the dance opportunities headed her way. Her gym coach that she has known since she started with pre-team at age 9 is also leaving the gym due to a family move so that did play into our decision a little as well. My ds is getting older (almost 10) and is interested in basketball so I need to make time for his activities also.
I will definitely still be around (I am still a huge gymnastics fan even though my dd isn't participating anymore). I love hearing about all the gymmies' progress and hearing about other day to day stuff we all go through.
Here is a video I put together a few days ago of Dani's time in the sport:
[video=youtube;oP657rFtXDU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP657rFtXDU[/video]